US Patent Issued to Texas Tech University System on June 2 for "Wide bandgap optical phased arrays (OPA's) and methods related thereto" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,103, issued on June 2, was assigned to Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, Texas).

"Wide bandgap optical phased arrays (OPA's) and methods related thereto" was invented by Hongxing Jiang (Lubbock, Texas), Changzhi Li (Lubbock, Texas), Jing Li (Lubbock, Texas), Jingyu Lin (Lubbock, Texas), Aaron Carman (Lubbock, Texas) and Trey Smith (Amarillo, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system and method for solid-state 2D optical phased arrays (OPAs), which are fabricated from InGaN/AlGaN multiple quantum wells (MQWs) and AlyGa1-yN/AlxGa1-xN (ygreater thanx) MQWs. The InGaN/AlGaN MQWs and AlyGa1-yN/AlxGa1-xN (ygreater than...